Violence

Gender

Security

Eurasia

Foreign Aid

Conflict

Education

• Ph.D., Political Science, McGill University
• M.A., Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas at Austin
• B.A. (Hons.), International Development Studies and Russian Studies, McGill University

Research Interests

• Political violence
• Gender
• Security
• Eurasia
• Foreign assistance
• Conflict and post-conflict countries

Select Publications

• Izabela Steflja, Jessica Trisko Darden and Amanda Wintersieck, “Breaking Through the Legal Binary: Media Labelling of Dominic Ongwen as a Victim-Perpetrator,” Social & Legal Studies (2023, Open Access)
• Jessica Trisko Darden. “Ukrainian Wartime Policy and the Construction of Women's Combatant Status,” Women's Studies International Forum (2023, Open Access)
• Jessica Trisko Darden and Duenya Hassan, “Citizenship, Family Law, and the Repatriation of Islamic State Affiliates in MENA,” Terrorism and Political Violence (2023)
• Jessica Trisko Darden and Emily Estelle, “Confronting Islamist Insurgencies in Africa: The Case of Mozambique,” Orbis (2021)
• Jessica Trisko Darden, Aiding and Abetting: U.S. Foreign Assistance and State Violence (Stanford University Press, 2020)

Affiliations

• William & Mary Global Research Institute
• George Washington University Program on Extremism

Courses

• Women in Global Politics
• The Politics of Genocide
• Senior Seminar

Projects

• The (In)Security Lab at VCU